Last year, emichwp.org was launched as the main site for all EMWP happenings, focusing on parents, administrators, and potential teacher consultants as the audience. There was an EMWP Teacher Consultant Community page which remained unused but had untapped potential. This past semester, the community page has been revised to focus on the current teacher consultants of the EMWP.

Teacher consultants will find pictures of events (perfect for your personal and professional use), archived summer institute websites, the EMWP blog that will launch at the end of the month, professional opportunities (job postings and education), fellow TC blogs, opportunities for teachers to continue being writers, the professional library catalogue, and more.

We hope to involve more of you in building the community site, especially when it comes to writing. The blog that will launch at the end of the month would feature at least one TC’s post which could be a reposting from your own blog. If interested, please contact Geneva at emichwp@gmail.com or gmarsack@emich.edu

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Everyday
Advocacy

An Eastern Michigan Writing
Project Summer Institute

June 27 -29,
2017 9am – 3pm each day

Eastern Michigan University
Campus, Ypsilanti, MI

Sadly,
the ongoing conversation about school reform too often leaves out the voices of
teachers—those who are most intimately acquainted with the day-to-day issues
that impact students and their learning. We believe that these voices are
essential ones for policy makers to hear, but we recognize as well the
pressures on teachers to remain silent.

How can
teachers safely enter the conversation?
In this workshop, we’ll help you become part of that conversation as you
learn how to develop your personal stories into a public narrative, starting
from anecdotes and building toward an action plan. By the end of day 3, you should have an
action plan to take back to your classroom and school.

The
workshop is facilitated by Dr. Cathy Fleischer, EMWP co-director, author of Teachers Organizing for Change, and lead
developer for the Everyday Advocacy website.

Who can apply? To apply, please fill out the online
form (link below) by May 1, 2017. If
more than 25 apply, teachers will be selected based on three criteria: (1)
commitment to the topic; (2) school and subject area representation (i.e.,
diversity in grade level; school location; school size, etc.); and (3)
connection to the NWP network.

Is there a cost? $75 for the three days. Payment is due on the first day of the
Institute.